The New Mexico Museum of Art is the oldest art museum in the state. It was founded in 1917 as the Art Gallery of the Museum of New Mexico. Housed in a spectacular Pueblo Revival building, it is a masterpiece of Pueblo Revival architecture, and the best representation of the synthesis of Native American and Spanish colonial design style. It was designed by I. H. and William M. Rapp and was based on their New Mexico building at the Panama-California Exposition (1915). The museum's architecture inaugurated what has come to be known as "Santa Fe Style." For more than 90 years, the Museum has collected and exhibited work by leading artists from New Mexico and elsewhere.

The museum has more than 20,000 works of American and European art in its collection, including paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, photographs, new media, and conceptual works. Its collection focuses on American art with an emphasis on artists working in the Southwest, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Weston, Laura Gilpin, Agnes Martin, Luis Jimenez, Luis Tapia, Bruce Nauman, Meridel Rubenstein, and Ana Mendieta among others.

Vist the Museum website: http://www.nmartmuseum.org

Seasons Open: All

Hours Open: Tuesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Free Friday Evenings 5 - 8 p.m. Memorial Day through Labor Day: also open Monday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Museum is closed on New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving & Christmas

Fees: Admission to the New Mexico Museum of Art costs $6 for New Mexico residents and $9 for non-residents